"[The author has] taken [her] Dictionary of British folk-tales (Part A, 2 volumes published in 1970 and Part B, 2 volumes published in 1971 ...) and selected a sampler ..."--Introduction

This selection originally published: London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977

Fables and exempla. Belling the cat -- The bum bee -- The farmer and his ox -- Fairy tales. Allison Gross -- Ashey pelt -- The dead moon-- The flight of the birds -- The Gobborn seer -- The golden ball -- Jack and the giants -- The king of the black art -- King Herla -- The man who wouldn't go out at night -- The old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle -- Tom Tim Tot, with its sequel, The gipsy woman -- Jocular tales. Austwick Carles : II -- The Austwick Carles and the watch : V -- The best way to die -- Box about -- The cuckoo-penners -- The dog that talked -- Dutch courage -- An exorcism -- Good and bad news -- The man that stoles the parson's sheep -- The miller's eels -- The Painswick ancients -- The secret agent -- The three sillies -- The two pickpockets -- Yorkshire follies : the considerate bandsman -- Novelle. Adam Bel, Clym of the Clough and William of Cloudesley -- Cap O'Rushes -- The king of the liars -- Mr. Fox -- The professor of signs -- The tale of Ivan -- The three good advices -- The ungrateful sons -- Nursery tales. The cattie sits in the kiln-ring spinning -- The endless tale -- The old man at the white house -- Sir Gammer Vans -- Teeny-tiny -- The three bears -- The three wee pigs -- The wee, wee mannie -- Black dogs. The black dog of Tring -- The guardian black dog -- Lyme Regis black dog legend -- Bogies. The boggart -- The buttery spirit -- The farmer and the boggart -- Nuckelavee -- The white bucca and the black -- Devils. The black rider -- Dando and his dogs -- The devil at the card party -- The devil at Little Dunkeld Manse -- A minister molested -- The prize wrestler and the demon -- Dragons. The dragon of Wantley -- The gurt vurm of Shervage Wood -- King Arthur and the dragon -- The Linton worm -- The Longwitton dragon -- Fairies. Anne Jefferies and the fairies -- The broken bilk -- The brownie -- The captured fairies -- The fairy dwelling on Selena Moor -- The green children -- Horse and hattock -- Inkberrow's ting-tang -- Jeannie's granny sees a fairy -- Johnnie in the cradle -- -The laird of Balmachie's wife -- The midwife -- Sir Godfrey Macculloch -- The white powder

Ghosts. The Bishopsthorpe ghost -- The Bussex Rhine, and king's Sedgemoor -- Croglin Grange -- The death "bree" -- A doctor's strange experience -- The drummer of Airlie -- The ghost of Gairnside -- The grateful ghost -- John Rudall and the ghost of Dorothy Dinglett -- Lady Howard's coach -- A lay ghost-layer -- The lord protector -- Sammle's ghost -- The silken shawl -- The six dead men -- The treasure of Downhouse -- Giants. Brutus and Corineus -- The giant bolster -- The giant of Carn Galva -- The giants of Stowey -- The origin of the Wrekin : II -- Wade and his wife -- Historical traditions. Burke and hare -- Cromwell in Glasgow -- Drake as a wizard -- Dream portending the death of William Rufus -- Flood law in the fens -- Folk-memory of Chaucer -- The ghost's "evidence" -- The grey goose feathers -- King Richard and the penitent knight -- Marshall's elm -- The Oxford student -- Pudsay the coiner -- The sons of the conqueror -- The warden of the marshes -- Local legends. The beasts' thorn -- Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun -- The church of Fordoun -- The cook at Combwell -- Crawls -- The gold of Largo Law -- Guinevere's comb -- The horn of Egremont -- The murder hole -- The old house of Balhary -- Owen Parfitt -- The pedlar of Swaffham -- The rollright stones -- The sale of a wife -- Simmer water -- Trapping the plague -- The wimblestone -- Saints. The Crowza stones -- Men with tails -- St. Adelme -- St. Aloys and the lame nag -- St. Augustine at Long Compton -- St Uncumber -- St. Wulfric and the greedy boy -- Ushen and St. Patrick -- The supernatural. The anchor -- The curate of Axholme -- The dart of death -- The dream house -- The escaping soul -- The green lady of Cromarty -- The hand of glory -- The shepherd and the crows -- A vision at Dunino -- The waff -- The wandering Jew -- Witches. The black hen -- The blacksmith's wife of Yarrowfoot -- The counter-charm -- The elder-tree witch -- The ferryman -- Friar Bacon -- The hare's parliament -- Jakey Bascombe and the cob -- The laird of Pittarro -- Molly Cass and the nine of hearts -- Mother Shipton -- The silver sixpence -- The unbidden ghost -- The witch of Berkeley -- Witches at Hallowe'en -- Miscellaneous legends. Farmer Hewlett's amends -- The foreign hotel -- The good magpie -- The stolen corpse -- The wooden legs

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